Lessons Learned From the Study of 10,000 Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Abstract

Continuous prospective long-term databases are important to obtain knowledge particularly for rare tumors. Such data can be a rich resource for the development of prognostic indicators including nomograms and can be analyzed by Bayesian Belief Networks. These long-term data linked to collection of tumor and germ-line tissue at the time of an initial procedure will remain a resource for future decades.